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This 4 page paper discusses the famous painting generally known as "Whistler's Mother."
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is generally simply called "Whistlers Mother." This paper will look at it from two perspectives: first, it analyzes it as a work of art; second, it analyzes the type of
reaction it might provoke in a viewer. The painting is of a woman in strict profile; we are looking at the left side of her face and see nothing at
all of the other side. The observer is slightly higher than the woman, who is seated; thus we are in the same position the artist would be as he painted
her, assuming he was standing when he did so. The light is diffuse and comes from the womans left, just enough to throw her shadow on the wall behind her
and slight to the right from the observers point of view. The palette is very subdued; the only colors in the painting are black, gray, cream, brown and tan,
and of those, as the title tells us, black is the most prominent. The woman is wearing a black dress and it is so inky, so absolutely black that it
draws the eye immediately. It is more than dark, it is the total absence of light. It suggests that she is in mourning. The suggestions of mourning is also
found in the womans tightly clasped hands, in the handkerchief that she is clutching tightly, and in the fact that her hair is covered (though that may simply have been
the fashion). Her feet are on a very low stool or support of some kind, and she is sitting with her shoulders slightly slumped, and her head just a bit
forward. Its impossible to tell where she begins and the chair stops. The wall behind her is a subdued tan; there is an indistinct picture on it matted in
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